90 MINUTE SESSIONS TO INCLUDE A SELECTION OF THE BELOW EACH WEEK warm-up question repeated round the table on a weekly basis : 'what have you been doing over the last week?' (to work on use of past tenses and get into the swing of speaking French) a few minutes on one of the sounds of French to aid pronunciation and in the long term, comprehension working aloud on homework given the previous week, comparing answers and checking for full understanding with opportunity for further questions and discussion possibility, if interest, of a short 2 minute presentation by one of the students some weeks on a simple topic - anything from 'my favourite restaurant in Paris' to 'why I don't wear high heels'. Slightly scary but excellent for building confidence! Feedback from myself and others only if wanted (you won't be torn apart and go home crying, honest!) this also gives the others the chance to concentrate on a subject most will be unfamiliar with and practise asking questions. The presenter might also like to prepare a few questions for the audience ('what colour were my first pair of killer heels and how much did they cost?') and a short vocab list if they had to look up specific terms working through a piece of grammar / verb tense or mood. Sample suggestions: comparison and formation of perfect and imperfect tenses; the point of reflexive verbs (yes there is one!); object pronouns direct and indirect; the perfect tense with être - why?!; prepositions à and de; use of lequel; relative pronouns qui, que, which to use and why the English often forget them altogether; question words and prompts (ah bon?!); the pluperfect and future perfect tenses, what is a mood anyway and why is it different to a tense; the divine trinity of subject, verb and object and their relationship explained... work on a longer text and subject-linked podcast over several sessions to build up to working in depth on real-life current French with opportunities to discuss the topic, pick out specific vocabulary/phrases and develop listening and discussion skills a repeated closing formula asked around the table such as the question 'what will you be doing over the next week?' (use of future tense and eventually use of moods such as the conditional, subjunctive and passive) PROBABLE TIMING - MONDAY 6 - 7.30pm PRICE - BETWEEN £15 - £20 PER SESSION DEPENDING ON NUMBERS WHICH WILL NOT EXCEED 6 OR 7 Please get in touch if you would be interested in attending this group